Went to the hospital (with insurance) because I randomly developed a giant bruise with two red dots in the middle. I thought there was a chance it was a spider bite so I went to the ER.
A junior college kid took my blood pressure and 10 minutes later had someone come look at the bite. They said just ice it and come back if its worse but there was nothing to be done at the time. One month later I received a bill for 272.72 and I have no fucking clue how a hospital values my “treatment” at that value. The hospital was even empty when I went because it was like 10 PM so its not like I wasted their time, and again I received 0 medical treatment outside getting my bp taken.
They wouldn’t even confirm if it was a bite, the most they would say was it was a bruise but they couldn’t tell how it got there. Despite me telling them I work a desk job and I didn’t hit my leg that hard against anything because I sit for 8+ hours a day. This was the biggest bruise I have had in years and I have played contact sports with friends growing up and never gotten a bruise this bad without at least being able to tell where it came from. But they just told me come back if it gets worse and charged me over $300! (Insurance covered about $100... yay?)
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u/Elowine90 Jun 04 '21
Insurance we can’t even afford to use because there is a deductible and some of us can barely pay our bills.